Announcement and call for presentations

The 2012 Portuguese Stata Users Group meeting will be held at Nova
School of Business & Economics in Lisbon, Portugal, on
September 7.
The objective of the meeting is to provide Stata users the opportunity to
exchange ideas, experiences, and information on new applications of the
software. Everybody who is interested in using Stata is welcome.

The conference language will be English.

Featured presentations

Slippery slopes

Pedro Portugal

Nova School of Business & Economics
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Working in the margins to plot a clear course

Bill Rising

StataCorp LP

Submission guidelines

If you are interested in presenting, please submit an abstract (maximum 200
words) by email to
stataugm@novabse.pt. The deadline
for submissions is July 2, 2012.

Please include your name and affiliation in the email. The scientific
organizers will make a preliminary selection by July 21, 2012. If selected,
you must submit the final version of your presentation (powerpoint or pdf) by
August 31, 2012. Short papers (maximum 10 pages) are also welcome. Presentations
should be 20 minutes or shorter.

Registration

Participants are asked to travel at their own expense.
The conference fee includes two coffee breaks, lunch, and meeting materials.
Timberlake Consultores generously sponsors registration fee waivers for
presentations (only one fee waiver per presentation, regardless of the number of
authors involved).

Register online.
You can also enroll by contacting Luís Barros or Vasco Tavares
of Timberlake Consultores by email
(stataugm@novasbe.pt) or by phone
(00 351 245 308 549).